Leadership development specialist
Leadership, Lived
Effective leadership development doesn't happen in a classroom. It happens in real-time, inside the human experience.
Leadership, Lived Manifesto
Leadership is not a title.
It is not a program.
It is not a moment in time.
Leadership is something you live—daily, consistently, and across the full arc of your career.
For too long, leadership development has been treated as episodic training:
a workshop here, a course there, a keynote once a year.
Information without integration.
Insight without application.
Inspiration without infrastructure.
The result?
Capable people, underdeveloped leaders.
High potential, underleveraged talent.
Organizations full of skills, but short on maturity, coherence, and sustained performance.
Leadership, Lived exists to change that.
Founded by executive advisor, speaker, and author JoAnn Corley, Leadership, Lived is an experience-based leadership development system built on a simple but profound truth:
Leadership success is not built in theory. It is built in lived experience.
At the heart of Leadership, Lived is the belief that when we are our best human selves, we will have our best businesses. Organizations are not machines. They are ecosystems of relationships and talent. And leadership effectiveness is shaped not only by strategy and skills—but by maturity, emotional intelligence, relational capacity, decision quality, and the ability to grow others.
This philosophy is operationalized through JoAnn’s pioneering work on the human quotient—the integration of people acumen with business and organizational acumen.
Leadership, Lived moves beyond traditional training into real-time development. It integrates neuroscience, behavioral science, and decades of field-tested coaching into structured growth experiences that create measurable impact.
At its core are six leadership dimensions that reflect how leadership is actually lived:
• Authentic personal power
• Relationship building
• Leading individuals
• Leading teams
• Results and process management
• Growth and talent development
Rather than treating leadership as a single phase or role, Leadership, Lived is designed around the life cycle of leadership. It adapts to leaders at every stage—from early managers to seasoned executives—offering long-term developmental value rather than short-term learning events.
Through 90-day growth cycles, micro-milestones, behavioral feedback loops, and applied coaching experiences, leaders don’t just learn leadership—they live it.
Leadership, Lived is not about doing more. It’s about becoming more by developing more. It is about building complete leaders—humanly grounded, strategically capable, and operationally effective.
It is about ...
Turning insight into behavior => Behavior into performance => Performance into impact =>Impact into measurable results.
Leadership, Lived | Special Offerings
How to Make a Financial Case
PARTNER | LinkedIn Learning Courses
PARTNER | LinkedIn Learning Courses
Decisions Reflect Competency
How to Make Better People Management Decisions - via a step-by-step process.
This is a one-of-kind Masterclass - a must have in every professional toolkit!
This Masterclass teaches you how to make the best decision and compellng case for someone you want to promote, let go, or develop.
Do you know how to financially measure the value of a talented employee, the cost of a difficult one or
dysfunctional manager?
If not, don't feel bad, most leaders don't. Unfortunately, it's probably costing you and your company via ineffective decisions.
Just recently, we helped a company save well over $100,000 just from 1 manager learning to financially measure an employee's performance through the processes learned in our Masterclass.
Learn why we've created this offering and why you should enroll and even bring it to your organization.
PARTNER | LinkedIn Learning Courses
PARTNER | LinkedIn Learning Courses
PARTNER | LinkedIn Learning Courses
LinkedIn Learning Courses:
HR: How to Handle Employee Problems
Mgt: How to Manage Employee Performance Problems
Talent Development for Managers
Developing Future Leaders for Managers
Course Languages:
English
Portuguese
Japanese
Chinese
Where to find JoAnn's Content
Embed your learning into your everday schedule...grow as you go!
_ Text Form > E-coach monthly email, blog - Subscribe here: www.thedistinctleader.com
_ Books/ Kindle > Amazon Author page
_ Audio > Micro-Podcast - Leadership, Lived (bite-size learning) iTunes, Audible-Amazon, Spotify, Podbean
_Video > Youtube, TikTok
> New releases posted on LinkedIn - Facebook/Instagram - Twitter
> LinkedIn Learning Courses
|> We're excited to have 2 new offerings!
The Expert Ear | Mental Health Coaching
Sue Savage brings a wealth of experience and knowledge. She has been a licensed therapist/counselor and teacher for a number of years. I have brought her on board to fill the gap between thinking you might need support, not knowing what to do about it and either not having a company EAP plan or not, for privacy reasons, wanting to use it. She will be offering listening sessions to help you sort through what's needed to make the best decision. Or if you feel you need a mental tune-up, she can help! Learn more here.
The Mentoring Club
We are partnering with a global opportunity to get professional support independent of an oganization. In my soon to be released LinkedIn Learning course on managing employee performance problems, I suggest ways of supporting improvement via mentorship - either internally or outside an organization. Click here to learn more
Unlock Your Potential for CAREER SUCCESS!
JUST RELEASED!
A unique, holistic approach to career planning & management. You are so much more than a resume!
During and after covid, many people started re-evaluating their lives and careers. If you can relate, this is the guide for you!
> Buy the guide/workbook on Amazon (8 1/2 x 11) & receive a free pdf version.
> The first of kind book that has free complimentary resources on YouTube & TikTok | Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW172MFY
*If you are a manager or HR professional, consider a full day in-person workshop or introductory virtual Lunch & Learn. Why? Empowering your employees to own who they are and the work they do will enable easier management. We teach people to integrate career and performance management! Got questions, email me: joann@joanncorley.com
